Space for image placement In today’s enterprise, business success is fueled by innovative software that works for your end users. More and more, your business is reliant on technology that is constantly in motion. Mobile applications and continuously delivered technology updates are expected by many of your end users. Yet that speed of technology change should not outpace your need to deliver high-quality applications as a significant incident, or outage can cost your business dearly. Your IT quality teams need solutions enabling delivery of modernized applications faster while maintaining and improving quality, reliability, and security. HP Quality Center (QC) Enterprise software is the right solution for your time-pressured IT quality teams working in partnership with development, business users, and delivery teams to deliver the promise of modern applications for business success. HP Quality Center Enterprise software is a comprehensive, unified, and extensible application software quality platform. It manages and automates delivery of highly secure, reliable, and high-quality applications. You can implement your complete quality management and establish consistent, repeatable processes for managing requirements, tests, business components and defects with HP Quality Center Enterprise software. Data sheet HP Quality Center Enterprise software
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In today’s enterprise, business success is fueled by innovative software that works for your end users. More and more, your business is reliant on technology that is constantly in motion. Mobile applications and continuously delivered technology updates are expected by many of your end users. Yet that speed of technology change should not outpace your need to deliver high-quality applications as a significant incident, or outage can cost your business dearly. Your IT quality teams need solutions enabling delivery of modernized applications faster while maintaining and improving quality, reliability, and security. HP Quality Center (QC) Enterprise software is the right solution for your time-pressured IT quality teams working in partnership with development, business users, and delivery teams to deliver the promise of modern applications for business success.
HP Quality Center Enterprise software is a comprehensive, unified, and extensible application software quality platform. It manages and automates delivery of highly secure, reliable, and high-quality applications. You can implement your complete quality management and establish consistent, repeatable processes for managing requirements, tests, business components and defects with HP Quality Center Enterprise software.
The modern quality management platform that manages and controls quality through the lifecycle efficiently.
Keeping application quality in sight
Software today is core to any business process and ultimately every business outcome. Organizations cannot afford to deliver a poor quality application as the costs to productivity, customer satisfaction, and even revenue generation can be severe. To keep business running smoothly, organizations need to make sure that their applications function as expected, perform even under variable consumption loads, and meet security levels demanded by the risk profile of the application to the business. And security, in particular, has come forward as a critical aspect of application quality as the risk of exploitation by hackers has grown substantially with the advent of HTML5, mobile devices, and now cloud-based delivery models. As a result, functionality, performance and security expectations, or requirements, all drive quality processes and lead to adoption of new testing methods. Today’s quality assurance (QA) team needs the efficiencies delivered by an integrated platform designed to manage and control quality through the lifecycle. HP QC Enterprise software is that modern quality management platform.
Too often organizations are still relying on standalone documents or a collection of disparate systems to keep track of their quality and testing efforts, and their testing assets resulting in:
• Increased risk of finding defects in production
• High costs due to a lack of consistent and repeatable processes
• Unclear requirements resulting in development and QA not delivering what the business wants
• No single point of truth, finger-pointing, and inefficient hand-offs
• Redundant testing due to missing information
• Poor decisions due to inadequate visibility into project progress and status
• Many hours spent compiling reports that are immediately out of date
To help provide the quality of an application by leveraging consistent, repeatable, and standardized processes, thousands of organizations have adopted HP QC Enterprise software.
Figure 1. Importing a business process model in HP QC Enterprise software and aligning business process to requirements
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Delivering a consistent approach to managing application quality
HP QC Enterprise software is a unified platform that efficiently scales from a single project to multiple, enterprise-wide projects and releases. It enables you to manage application quality with consistent, repeatable processes regardless of your methodology of choice, from waterfall to iterative methodologies such as agile.
HP QC Enterprise software supports requirements definition, authoring and management, release and cycle management, test planning and scheduling, defects management, and reporting—all within a single platform with complete traceability driving collaboration between business analysts, QA, and development teams.
HP QC Enterprise software is a Web-based solution providing access to a steel thread of critical project information. This information bridges distributed teams in their related efforts to deliver high-quality applications—regardless of geographic and organizational boundaries.
Key features and benefits
Requirements definition and managementHP QC Enterprise software supports a functionally rich foundation for requirements definition and management. Key capabilities include standardizing requirements definition via configurable templates, a rich text editor that provides a word-processor-like experience, the ability to view requirements coverage at project or release level, trace relationships between requirements, process paths, defects and test coverage.
HP QC Enterprise requirements definition, authoring and management allows for business process models (BPM) to be imported and displayed, visually representing and communicating the defined business process flows (see figure 1). When requirements change, a change impact report provides visibility into the requirements and subsequent part of the business process affected, enabling you to avoid a full regression test after each change. Dispersed teams also receive prompt notification of any requirements changes that might impact the tasks they are working on.
New Quality Center Enterprise Web ClientThe HP QC Enterprise Web Client offers a modern user interface to manage the quality of your application, and is part of HP’s ongoing commitment to providing innovative products and solutions. HP QC Enterprise Web Client has been completely redesigned to introduce new user flows which are easy to navigate and provide modern capabilities (workspaces, tagging, and filtering) which leads to effective management of the quality lifecycle. Today the HP QC Enterprise Web Client today has new Requirements and Defects module and will soon be adding Test modules as part of the next release.
Built on HTML5/JavaScript (JS) technology makes the HP QC Enterprise Web Client browser agnostic and one can access this over Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Do check out the product release notes for details on supported browsers and operating systems.
The QC Web Client has new features not available in existing QC Enterprise client:
Author mode: A document-centric viewing mode that enables you to see a list of requirements in a single document view and allows for quick editing of descriptions. This helps you to better understand the big picture.
Category views: A dynamic hierarchical structure based on virtual folders allows for flexibility in manipulating the requirements view. Views can be updated on the fly by selecting new category fields. This flexibility lets you determine the way in which requirements are organized.
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Risk-based test planning and managementDefine, manage, and track all test script types (functional, performance, and security) in one place. Coupled with risk-based test management, stakeholders can assign business risk to requirements, and calculate where to apply testing resources. Advanced test planning capabilities allow functional, regression, load, unit, and integration testing—each with its own set of requirements, schedules, and procedures. QA teams can emulate business processes, run tests unattended, define and share test cases and business process test components, and execute manual and automated testing with integrated results.
Quality release and cycle managementRelease and cycle management enables quick development and testing cycles, and breaks large projects into meaningful phases. Release effort can be planned by identifying requirements and tests for each cycle and attaining real-time visibility into actual vs. planned testing status to make informed “go/no-go” decisions.
Version controlVersion control is enabled for requirements, tests, and test assets to enable distributed teams to collaborate and manage multiple versions of assets in parallel while maintaining data integrity and providing audit history of changes through the project lifecycle.
Single sign-on and user managementCommon identify management standards like single sign-on (SSO) with Siteminder and common access card (CAC) is supported. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user management is also available for authentication if SSO is not required.
BaseliningBaselining captures a group of requirements, tests, or test assets at strategic points in the project lifecycle to mark specific milestones. Baselines can be compared for change impact and to enable rollback.
Test scheduling and executionControl and schedule execution of manual and automated tests. HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), automated tests can be run unattended to improve tester efficiency. View execution runs, results, and log defects with run details.
HP UFT—automated testingHP QC Enterprise software seamlessly integrates with HP UFT which is a single solution for automated testing of GUIs, application programming interfaces (APIs), and multi-layer applications. HP UFT software is an automated software testing solution addressing the challenges of constant change in technology and processes. HP Quality Center Enterprise Software also integrates with HP UFT Mobile, an end-to-end mobile testing solution that extends from real devices through the mobile network to the backend.
HP Sprinter—integrated manual testingRevolutionize your manual testing with HP Sprinter. Turn your testers into rock stars with the power to slash test cycles and document defects in accurate detail. With data injection, mirror testing, and defect scanners, repetitive steps are reduced saving time and rework. You can write tests manually in a spreadsheet-like environment, as well as auto-author tests based on interaction with the application under test (AUT). Free your testers from the burden of tracking their steps during exploratory testing; test steps are captured automatically and can be submitted as a defect as well as saved as a test for future use. And full integration with HP Quality Center Enterprise software Enterprise means full traceability, from requirements to test cases to defects.
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Figure 2. HP Sprinter—raising the bar on efficient manual testing
“HP Quality Center software allows us to perform standardized, repeated applications testing. It has reduced our testing costs, while delivering measurable improvements to the quality of the applications that keep our business in flight.”—Sagi Varghese, Quality Assurance Manager, JetBlue
Defect managementHP QC Enterprise software defect management identifies, manages, tracks, and enforces defect resolution across the application lifecycle. Testers can create functional, performance, and application security defects manually or directly from the execution of manual and automated tests, and communicate them to developers with context from linked requirements and test execution results.
Developer collaborationTo efficiently help ensure quality through the lifecycle, requirements, and defects need to be communicated to developers without requiring the learning and use of a new or additional development tool. HP QC Enterprise supports working in common integrated development environments (IDE) for linking tasks, requirements, and defects. Using HP QC Enterprise, developer tasks are tracked against the requirements and defects in order to track project progress and evaluate risk. Enable continuous testing with the Jenkins continuous integration plug-in.
Reporting and graphingHP QC Enterprise has an integrated dashboard module to centralize quality reporting, so you can make real-time decisions based on application status across projects and QA initiatives.
HP QC Enterprise software can also export a report source into Microsoft® Excel, letting your end users perform flexible data manipulation. In addition, HP QC Enterprise provides a set of pre-defined business views that are available for selection. These pre-defined views, in addition to user-defined views, are fully customizable and can be continually edited according to your needs. Project reports can be saved in multiple formats and can be exported to the Web and shared on external portals.
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HP Quality Center Enterprise software cuts testing costs by up to 73 percent.
Reduces post-production failures by up to 80 percent.
Figure 3. HP ALM provides visibility for key stakeholders throughout the lifecycle
HP Quality Center Enterprise software for mobile devicesQA teams and developers often need to conduct tests and work on defects when they are away from their computers. Testers may need to test functionality of applications that are not locally installed. The HP QC Enterprise software mobile apps, powered by HP Anywhere, make it possible to access the power of HP QC Enterprise software from an iPhone® or Android mobile device.
With the Defect Submission mobile application, you can verify defects, check online status, change defect status, create defects, and upload defects to HP QC Enterprise software on the go, without entering them directly on your computer.
Management software to expand your best practices across the application lifecycle
HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software is built on the same unified platform as HP Quality Center Enterprise software and is an easy upgrade for existing customers. It further enhances IT’s ability to manage the complete lifecycle of a software project, enterprise release, or program from inception to delivery, enabling organizations to establish best practices and common processes or move fully to a model of application center of excellence (CoE). HP ALM expands on HP QC Enterprise software with the following capabilities:
• Project planning and tracking to manage key performance indicators (KPIs)
• HP Application Lifecycle Intelligence to enable rapid decision making, and risk and change impact down to the source-code level
• Cross-project asset sharing and reuse to reduce duplication of effort
• Cross-project reporting to provide aggregated metrics and trends, giving a holistic view
• Cross-project defect-sharing to increase efficiency in resolving defects
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Bridge the quality gap between subject matter experts and quality engineersHP Business Process Testing (BPT) software brings business analysts into the process of defining business-driven testing use cases and process flows, and using them to increase the accuracy of tests. Using BPT, the test engineer is able to create reusable test components that map to business process test use cases, using both manual and automated methods, and share them with distributed quality teams within HP QC Enterprise software.
Agile quality managementHP Agile Manager is an on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for agile project management. HP Agile Manager acts as the communication hub and decision support system to plan, execute, and track agile projects. The solution empowers teams to manage their activities with unparalleled visibility into development data, and supports leading agile methodologies such as Scrum.
Two-way synchronization between HP Agile Manager and HP QC Enterprise software allows enterprises to achieve both velocity and quality by leveraging superior quality management and near continuous testing capabilities.
Standardize security as part of your testing processApplication security is an important aspect to quality that shouldn’t be left until the end of the process or after deployment. The HP Fortify Software Security Center offers a proven portfolio of application security software including both dynamic Web application security testing and static code analysis. HP Fortify solutions are available as on-premise software and on-demand SaaS, and are supported by HP Security Research, the industry’s largest team of software security experts who are constantly updating the solutions with the latest knowledge and support against application threats worldwide. HP Fortify solutions are integrated into HP QC Enterprise software to secure the development lifecycle by managing security activities in development from requirements through testing.
Prioritizing quality investments for the businessHigh quality applications are of little value if the business priority is not there to begin with. As a result, HP has integrated our HP Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software together with HP QC Enterprise software. HP PPM Center supports Quality Center with the investment planning and prioritization process first, ensuring you are investing in the most important activities. Second, HP PPM provides executives with the visibility they need into overall project status—including metrics provided by QC. Lastly, HP PPM provides real-time visibility into the health of each investment and value of any application within the portfolio. Through the integration of PPM and QC, you gain automated application lifecycle process controls, including support for industry standards and methodologies that help to improve application quality while lowering costs.
Leverage HP Service Virtualization with HP Quality Center Enterprise softwareHP QC Enterprise users can gain enhanced access to shared virtual services for earlier functional testing and more complete service performance validation for composite applications. The integration of HP QC Enterprise with HP Service Virtualization allows users to set up and control virtual environments, and change simulation status, as well as functional and performance characteristics of virtualized services, directly from automation tools. Users can then consolidate simulation results directly into their real-time test reports for offline analysis and provide a consolidated evaluation of application performance and functionality.
HP IT Executive Dashboard HP IT Executive Scorecard automatically gathers metrics from across your IT systems to build KPIs. It provides scorecards and dashboards for managers to show them insights in business-friendly formats that can help to convey the value of IT. Before the HP IT Executive Scorecard, IT teams tried to pull together reports using manual processes that were slow, difficult, and with little or no governance. With HP IT Executive Scorecard you can automate the gathering of information from diverse sources, consolidating it, linking it to a service hierarchy, and presenting it in near real time.
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HP Quality Center Enterprise via SaaS brings the following business benefits:
• Subscription pricing for TCO
• Predictable IT expenditures
• Multi-layer security
• 24x7x365 support
• Built-in and on-demand scalability
• Less risk
Services to enhance your investment
Quality management with benefit of cloud deploymentHP Quality Center Enterprise software on SaaS enables faster time to value, whether you need quick and secure access to the software, or you engage our experts to help drive efficiency into your quality management practice. HP Quality Center Enterprise software on SaaS customers can manage application quality through the complete application lifecycle with lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and a predictable operational cost model. The benefits of cloud deployment include reducing resources to manage technology and removing the burden of migrations or upgrades. All this allows our customers to benefit the latest HP software technology innovations, while focusing on executing their core business strategy and create business outcomes as their competitive advantage.
HP Professional Services for quality assurance HP Software Professional Services provide testing, consulting, designing, implementation, and education services for industry-leading HP QC Enterprise software. Flexible service delivery options from HP include HP Testing as a Service (TaaS), which provides output-based functional, performance, and security testing services. The result is the right strategic guidance to reduce costs and help maximize IT performance for companies using HP QC Enterprise software.
Additional resourcesFor an overview of HP enterprise software services, visit HP Application Lifestyle Management Enterprise Software.
For technical support, visit HP Software Support Online at hp.com/managementsoftware/services.
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